Microsoft missed the boat by not bolstering Windows cross-platform capabilities Let’s begin with the most amusing part of the widely derided launch of the Xbox One: At least some of the game demos for the new system were run on a PC using Windows 7 and an Nvidia graphics card. See! Even Microsoft doesn’t use Windows 8 for gaming! Microsoft used Windows 7-powered PCs to power their Xbox One E3 demos. It’s not at all unusual for new consoles or games to run on PCs, but if only Microsoft really understood what that meant